id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-npr-org-5405 Man Says He Was Falsely Arrested After Facial Recognition Mistake : NPR 2020-06-2 .html text/html 1104 158 77 Man Says He Was Falsely Arrested After Facial Recognition Mistake : NPR Expand/collapse submenu for Arts & Life Man Says He Was Falsely Arrested After Facial Recognition Mistake The ACLU has filed a complaint against the Detroit Police Department for what the group says is the first documented instance in the U.S. of someone being falsely arrested based on AI. The ACLU has filed a complaint against the Detroit Police Department for what the group says is the first documented instance in the U.S. of someone being falsely arrested based on AI. As NPR's Bobby Allyn reports, critics of the technology say the case shows how unreliable the tool is. What makes this case extraordinary is that police admitted that facial recognition technology prompted the arrest. In a statement to NPR, the Detroit Police Department says after the Williams case, the department enacted new rules. ./cache/www-npr-org-5405.html ./txt/www-npr-org-5405.txt